PHP ships coordinated updates across all four supported branches:
→ 8.5.9
→ 8.4.24
→ 8.3.33
→ 8.2.33
Bug fixes and stability improvements for every active release line — whichever branch you run, there's a patch waiting.
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- PHP is getting a first-class Duration type. Time\Duration: nanosecond precision, fromMilliseconds(), real arithmetic — first piece of a new Time\ namespace. The vote runs until Jul 31 and stands at 22–1. Details:
- Mid-2026 PHP support check: 8.1 is EOL. 8.2 gets security fixes only until Dec 31, 2026 — that's under 6 months to plan your upgrade. 8.4 and 8.5 are your safe harbors. Full timeline:
- Not PHP — but a fun engineering story: one two-letter domain, 70 leasable names.
- We just published Why PHP Still Matters in 2025 — A Developer’s Story from Skeptic to Advocate medium.com/p/why-php-stil…
